| | Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Basel Explores Vienna: 1900, Klimt, Schiele and their Times
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A journalist takes a picture of a painting, entitled Recling Woman, 1917, by Austrian artits Egon Schiele, on display in an exhibition, entitled Vienna 1900 - Klimt, Schiele And Their Times, at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, Switzerland, 24 September 2010. The Fondation Beyeler exhibition presents some 200 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, supplemented by architectural models, furniture, textile designs, glass and silver objects, artists posters, and photographs. It opens to the public from 26 September 2010 to 16 January 2011. EPA/ANDREAS FROSSARD.
BASEL.- With the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna around 1900 was one of the cradles of modern art. The Fondation Beyeler is mounting the first comprehensive exhibition ever devoted in Switzerland to this theme, curated by Barbara Steffen. On view will be about 200 paintings, water-colors and drawings, supplemented by architectural models, furniture, textile designs, glass and silver objects, artists posters, and photographs. At the center of our exhibition of Viennese modernism stand the renowned ornamental portraits and landscapes of Gustav Klimt, the expressive figure depictions of Egon Schiele, and the legen-dary erotic drawings of both artists. Presented in addition will be works by the young Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Arnold Schoenberg. Running like a thread through the exhibition is the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk, a leitmotif of the artists, artisans, and architects of the Vienna Secession ... More |
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Hungarian Artists Alongside Greats in London Show at Royal Academy
Raphael, Esterhazy Madonna, c. 1507-08. Tempera and oil on poplar panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS).- Hungarian artists hang alongside some of Europe's greatest painters in a new blockbuster exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts put together at the 11th hour after the original show fell through. "Treasures from Budapest: European Masters from Leonardo to Schiele" opens on Friday and features around 230 works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and Hungarian National Gallery. The London exhibition was scrambled together in only a few months when a show featuring treasures from the Prince of Liechtenstein's collection was canceled in December following a dispute over the export of one of the prince's paintings. Kathleen Soriano, director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, said the Hungarian museums offered the institution "carte blanche" to select works for the show and within three months they had made their choices. For the ... More | | New Exhibition of Paintings by Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Deborah Kass, Forget Your Troubles, 2010, oil and acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Photo: Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery and Vincent Fremont present a new exhibition of paintings by Deborah Kass entitled "MORE feel good paintings for feel bad times." This is Kass’s second show at the gallery and will be on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from September 23 through October 30, 2010. Expanding the ideas of her exhibition in the fall of 2007, Kass continues to mine the fields of post war painting, language, and music to explore the intersection of politics, popular culture, art history, and the self. Kass’s new paintings, while more circumspect, still sing. But the songs are of a more ambivalent nature, reflecting her reaction to the uncertain state of current affairs. Her vibrant texts can be read as an emotional barometer of our times. The American Songbook, Stephen Sondheim and Laura Nyro take star turns in the paintings, as do Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella and Ed Ruscha in tribute to the ... More | | Lehman Brothers Sign, Artworks to Be Auctioned Off in UK
An auction house employee stands by a painting called 'When will that be' by Cary Smith. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth.
Jill Lawless, Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP)- For sale: a sign of the times. Christie's is auctioning off the 10 foot-long (3 meter-long) sign that adorned the European headquarters of Lehman Brothers, along with paintings, furniture and other objects from the offices of the collapsed investment bank. They are among millions of dollars' (euros') worth of items being sold to help pay Lehman's creditors. The bank collapsed in September 2008. It was the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history and helped cause one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression. On Friday Christie's held a preview of items from the sale, which is expected to raise about 2 million pounds ($3.1 million). The 300 lots include works by modern artists including Gary Hume, Robert Rauschenberg and Lucian Freud, a selection of maritime and sporting paintings and office knickknacks — ... More |
 | Hauser & Wirth's First Posthumous Show of Jason Rhoades' Work Opens
Jason Rhoades, Installation view, 'Perfect World', Deichtorhallen , Hamburg , Germany , 1999. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner, New York. Photo: Jens Rathmann.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth presents the gallery’s first posthumous show of Jason Rhoades’ work and the artist’s first European solo exhibition since his death in 2006. The exhibition features ’1:12 Perfect World’, Rhoades’ scale model of his groundbreaking 1999 exhibition, ‘Perfect World’ at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. Originally existing as four quarters, the sterling silver model will be brought together at Hauser & Wirth’s Piccadilly gallery, viewable in its entirety for the first time. Like his previous exhibition, ‘The Black Pussy… and the Pagan Idol Workshop’ installed at Hauser & Wirth London in 2005, Rhoades’ incredibly complex installation ‘Perfect World’ created a visual maelstrom of miscellaneous objects and cultural allusions. ‘Things have meanings and meanings have multiplicity and the multiplicities have relationships to other meanings. ... More | | Gustav Klimt and Napoleon Bonaparte Heading to Melbourne
Egon Schiele, Portrait of a Boy I (Herbert Rainer) 1910, oil on canvas, 100.0 x 100.0 cm. Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (4766).
MELBOURNE.- Famous Viennese and French artworks rarely seen outside Europe are coming to Melbourne in 2011 and 2012. Minister for the Arts Peter Batchelor announced the next two instalments of the highly successful Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Series – Vienna: Art & Design, Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann in 2011, and in 2012, Napoleon: Revolution to Empire. “Victorians can expect exquisite international masterpieces at the National Gallery of Victoria over the next two winters with the exhibitions centred around two very different seats of power,” Mr Batchelor said. “Vienna: Art & Design,, which will be part of the NGV’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2011, will showcase an outstanding collection of some 240 works by the greatest Viennese artists, designers and architects of the 19th and 20th Century. “Napoleon: Revolution to Empire will bring more than 200 works from late 18th and ... More | | Private California Collection of Impressionist Paintings Highlights Christie's Sale
Gustave Caillebotte, La Seine à Argenteuil (detail), oil on canvas, 23 3/8 x 28 1/2 in. Painted in 1882. Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced it has been selected to offer The Walter and Phyllis Shorenstein Collection as part of its major fall 2010 and spring 2011 sales in New York and Hong Kong. Assembled over more than four decades by Walter Shorenstein, the San Francisco real estate mogul, and Phyllis Shorenstein, founder of the city's Asian Art Museum, the collection unites the couple's individual passions for Impressionist paintings and sculpture and fine Chinese glass, porcelain, jade and works of art. Over 170 items from this exceptional private collection will be offered across nine sale categories this fall and in the spring of 2011, beginning with Christie’s major Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on November 3 and Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art in Hong Kong on December 1. The total value is expected to achieve in excess of US$24 million. As is fitting for a single-owner collection of ... More |
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Ray Charles Memorial Library Officially Opens in Los Angeles
The library is located on the ground floor of the Los Angeles building Charles designed for his offices and recording studio. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello.
By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
B>LOS ANGELES (AP)- On what would have been his 80th birthday, Ray Charles has joined the likes of past presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with his own namesake library in Southern California. The Ray Charles Memorial Library officially opened its doors Thursday night. Housed in the studio and office building Charles built in South Los Angeles in the early 1960s, the library features interactive exhibits about the musician's life and career. Charles' friends and colleagues — including Quincy Jones, B.B. King, producer Jimmy Jam and filmmaker Taylor Hackford — welcome visitors via video to each section of the library, which is more like an interactive museum. Touch screens invite guests to explore Charles' most memorable recordings, while exhibits feature some of his Grammy awards, stage costumes, old contracts and ever-present sunglasses. Charles' ... More | | Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives by Capa, Chim, and Taro at ICP
Gerda Taro, (Crowd at the gate of the morgue after the air raid, Valencia), May 1937. Negative. © International Center of Photography. Collection International Center of Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Mexican Suitcase, a groundbreaking exhibition revealing the most famous group of recovered negatives of the twentieth century, will be on view at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from September 24, 2010 through January 9, 2011. Considered lost since 1939, the so-called Mexican Suitcase is in fact three boxes containing 4,500 negatives documenting the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Chim (David Seymour), and Gerda Taro. There are also several rolls of portraits of Capa and Taro by Fred Stein. Besides offering new images by these major photographers that provide a comprehensive overview of the war, the cache of negatives also includes previously unknown portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Dolores Ibarruri (known as “La Pasionaria”). Capa, Chim, and Taro risked their lives to witness history in the making ... More | | Zaha Hadid's MAXXI Museum is Favourite to Win RIBA Stirling Prize 2010
Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid poses for a photo during the opening ceremony of the National Museum of 21st Century Arts (MAXXI). EPA/GUIDO MONTANI.
LONDON.- With just over a week to go before the winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize is revealed, William Hill’s latest odds reveal Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome to be the favourite to win, with odds of 11/8. The winner will be announced on Saturday 2 October at 7.30pm, broadcast live from The Roundhouse in London, on BBC TWO’s The Culture Show. The RIBA Stirling Prize is run in association with The Architects' Journal and Benchmark, and is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The latest betting odds by William Hill are listed below: • MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects (11/8) • Neues Museum, Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Architects (2/1) • Clapham Manor Primary School, London by dRMM (5/1) • Ashmolean Muse ... More |
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Show at Victoria & Albert Museum Puts Diaghilev Among Greats of Modern Art
The two costumes to the left of the image were designed by Chanel. The image forms part of an exhibition, entitled Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929. EPA/VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM.
By: Mike Collett-White
LONDON (REUTERS)- Russian dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev once sat down to dinner with Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky. For many, his name is the least familiar amid the roll-call of early 20th century artistic greats, but a major exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum seeks to explain why Diaghilev deserved his seat at the table. "It is curious organising an exhibition when you know that your central figure is much less well known than many of the people around him," said Jane Pritchard, curator of the show which opens on Saturday. "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929" is made up of three sections which provide the backdrop for the famous dance company to burst on to the European cultural scene, explain how it operated and showcase a wide range of costumes and designs used ... More | | Forbes' Tiny Toys will Be Sold at Sotheby's in New York City
Toy boats which have been on display for the past 25 years in the lobby of the Forbes Magazine Fifth Avenue headquarters. AP Photo/Sotheby's.
NEW YORK (AP)- The Forbes collection of miniature vintage toy soldiers and boats — from kings and queens to luxury ocean liners and warships — is going on the auction block in December. The charming collectibles have been on view for 25 years in a series of dioramas and vignettes in the lobby of the Forbes Magazine Fifth Avenue headquarters in Greenwich Village. Totaling 7,500 pieces crafted from the 1870s through the 1950s, they will be sold in 250 lots on Dec. 17 at Sotheby's. They are expected to bring $3 million to $5 million. Among the highlights is a 37-inch-long replica of the Cunard Line's Lusitania ocean liner complete with two lead seamen, a seated passenger and five pairs of lifeboats. The magazine's late publisher, Malcolm Forbes, paid $28,600 for it at a Sotheby's auction in 1983. At the upcoming auction, the vintage toy is estimated to bring $100,000 to $200,000. A cast-iron French gas-powered armored gu ... More | | World of Khubilai Khan Revealed in New Exhibit at the Metropolitan
Khubilai Khan’s Consort, Chabi, Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). Album leaf. Ink and color on silk, 24 × 18 ¾ in. (61 × 47.6 cm) National Palace Museum, Taipei.
By Phil Wahba
NEW YORK (REUTERS)- A new exhibit featuring massive statues, dragon-shaped roof ridge ornaments and art from the Yuan dynasty gives visitors a glimpse of ancient China that the first Westerners would have seen 700 years ago. "The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features 200 works of art. Many are being shown outside of China for the first time. It focuses on the era spanning the birth in 1215 of Khubilai Khan, Gengis Khan's grandson and the Mongol founder of the Yuan dynasty, to its fall in 1368. "As you enter the galleries, you'll discover the extraordinary world of Khubilai Khan, in a sense, as Marco Polo did," said Thomas Campbell, the director of the museum. Khubilai Khan was the emperor who welcomed Marco Polo to China in 1275. The show, which opens on Tuesday and runs through January 2, is the museum's largest exhibit about Asian art since "China: Dawn of a Gold ... More |
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Knoedler & Company Open First Exhibition of Lynn Davis' Work
NEW YORK, NY.- Knoedler & Company inaugurated their representation of Lynn Davis and, simultaneously, opened their first exhibition of her work. Throughout her career, Lynn Davis has characteristically organized her photographs into series by subject, theme, and /or location, however this exhibition, which includes works from all periods of a career that spans more than three decades, is marked by groups comprising four images, each with divergent subjects—ranging from natural forms to ancient monuments to modern and postmodern / contemporary architecture, and even including a rare image from her early Bodywork series—all of which share formal affinities. Davis is attracted to each of her monuments because of the interplay between the shapes that make up the structure or its overall form. In fact, her work shares more with the sculpture of David Smith or the paintings of Ellsworth Kelly where form, or the inter ... More
Carnegie Museum of Art Names a Three-Person Curatorial Team for 2013 Carnegie International
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, has named a three-person team of curators to organize the 56th Carnegie International, which is scheduled to open in October 2013. The team will comprise curator Daniel Baumann, associate curator Dan Byers, and associate curator Tina Kukielski. The Carnegie International, initiated in 1896, is one of the world’s preeminent surveys of contemporary art. This is the first time in the International’s history that a curatorial team of three people will organize the exhibition. “This new structure will allow the International to result from a conversation among three very talented individuals of different ages, nationalities, and perspectives. I’m excited and intrigued to see what is produced out of this collaboration, which seems suited to our increasingly globalized world,” said Zelevansky. “The curators ... More
Exhibition of Recent Gifts of Wood Art from the Bresler Collection Opens at the Renwick Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC- "A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection" opens at the Renwick Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's branch museum for craft and decorative arts, Sept. 24 and closes Jan. 30, 2011. "A Revolution in Wood" celebrates the gift of 66 pieces of turned and carved wood to the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the noted collectors Fleur and Charles Bresler. The collection includes masterpieces that highlight the expressive capacity of craft's most organic material by some of the best-known wood artists in the United States. Nearly half of the artworks in the exhibition will be on public display for the first time. The Bresler's gift, one of the largest of wood art to any American museum, establishes at the museum's Renwick Gallery one of the preeminent public collections of the medium in the United States. The exhibition is organized by Nicholas R. Bell, curator at the Renwick Gallery. "We are honored that Fleur and Charles Bresler chose to give their deep ... More
France's PIXmania Founder Displays Art Collection
By: Dominique Vidalon
PARIS (REUTERS).- Steve Rosenblum is known as the chairman and one of the founders of French online retailer PIXmania, one of the dotcom era success stories. What fewer people know is that Rosenblum, 36, is also an enthusiastic art collector. After years of frantic contemporary art acquisition, Rosenblum and his wife Chiara, are opening a 1,300 sq m (13,990 sq ft) gallery in Paris next month. "Rosenblum Collection and Friends" includes 150 pieces by 40 international artists including Christian Boltanski, Matthias Bitzer, Christoph Buchel, Kelly Walker, or Barbara Kruger. It will display the works The Rosenblum collected as well as works from the same artists that belong to their friends. The space, a former photo laboratory in the up and coming 13th arrondissement, is designed to recreate the relaxed atmosphere of a home with dining room, library, kitchen and a children's area. The couple will host ... More
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